Cyberpunk Soccer Boys Incite Lust for Spring 2009

Bright flash of hot neon, architectural athleticism, and a post apocalyptic flair that strangely reminds you of the hodgepodge tumultuous periods of infancy and early childhood… all jumbled together in a mix that uncomfortably arouses an erotic fervor bordering on a pedophilic youth culture obsession. Essentially: raver soccer tricks from the cyberpunk fantasy of a William Gibson novel. This is the spring 2009 collection from Romain Kremer and it is a force. Without timidity or concern for the consolation of the sensible man (fashionable or not) he has distilled an undaunted proposal on what a man can and should be.

Kremer’s look is unquestionably gay with references ranging from Ray Petri’s Buffalo Boy, James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, and the back listings for twinky call boys in a Euro porn promo mag. It is erotic, it is ridiculous, it is extreme; it holds no resemblance to what we have come to know as good taste, good style, or anything good at all. Yet it is representative of a growing aesthetic for the utter disembowelment of the mundane. It is the unfettered embracement of the new. And its hyper sexuality further enforces the notion that absolutely no apologies will be made. The main difficulty in understanding Kremer’s designs is realizing them on your own figure. To imagine these molded shorts, neon body suits, strange appliqués adorning our own bodies is certainly not the easiest styling trick to figure out. But to imagine what it would be like if you could?! To think if these clothes could work and if you had somewhere to wear them to? It is not as much about the accessibility as it is about the challenge.

I think to embrace clothes like Kremer’s, in it’s full glory or even just a piece here or there, requires the fullest extent of what the word machismo can mean. Therein lies its power and appeal. It’s this kind of understanding that will lead the way in menswear.

all pictures from romainkremer.free.fr

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